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Over rocks and grass the army charged towards bliss unutterable, strewing their path with overturned and howling babies of prosperity who, clumsy from many nurses and much pampering, failed to make way. Past all barriers, accident or official, they pressed, nor halted to draw rein or breath until they were established, beatified, upon the waiting swan-boat.
"Let him go!" he called to Cousin Egbert, who released the ear from between his teeth. "Wait!" called the latter. "We're all going with you," whereupon he insisted that the cabby and I should enter a sort of swan-boat directly in the rear. I felt a silly fool, but I saw there was nothing else to be done.
I remember a performance of "Lohengrin," at the Academy of Music, at which the music was thrice interrupted by some ill-bred admirers of Campanini, who applauded him when he first appeared in sight on the swan-boat; again, when he stepped on shore, and a third time when he came to the front of the stage.
But, alas! her tears and pleadings were in vain, for, even as her entreaties were uttered, she heard the exquisite strains of music which had first heralded her lovers approach, while from the window of the castle she espied the swan-boat rapidly drawing toward the shore.
"Oh, lots," assented the girl with long hair. "If you walked all round the lake, clear all the way round, you could see all there is to see," said the third, "except what there's in the middle where the island is." "I guess it's mighty wild on that island," suggested the youngest. "Eddie Case he took a trip around the lake on a swan-boat the other day. He said that it was grand.
The moon was behind us and the Brunhilda was like a swanboat sailing down with the moonlight sending her, ja. "I heard my Freda say: 'I see a nisse coming down the track of the moon. And I hear her mother laugh, low, like a mother does when her Yndling dreams. I was happy that night with my Helma and my Freda, and the Brunhilda sailing like a swan-boat, ja.
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